Quotes About Deception

Jed thought he understood. It was like when his radios were thrown away. You could shrug your shoulders, put on a face that said you didn't care, but you did and nothing could ever be secure again. The next time security appeared as a possibility, you smashed it yourself. And went on smashing it. That, he was sure, was how Creed felt.

He thought of his old tapes, the ones he'd had for years, the ones he'd used over and over again. Their silence was always different to the silence of a new tape: it was loaded, prickly with things recorded and erased; a silence that was like ghosts. That house was an old tape masquerading as a new one. It had recorded and erased, but it was pretending it had just come out of the cellophane. It had ghosts, but it wasn't owning up to them.

The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that cigarette. There was a movie going on right under his nose and he didn't even know. The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it.

with every lie we surrender a little of our peace of mind

If, by telling a lie, one can make someone happy, why not tell the damn lie?

She had given her heart, even before she was conscious of possessing one, to a stranger unworthy of the gift.

Of all the animals on this planet, we are surely the nastiest, the most deceitful, the most murderous and vile. Despite our God, or because of him. Both.

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.—

Iwould say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back.

With lies you may get ahead in the world — but you can never go back.

The fog of war hinders the enemy, and so let us leave him with it rather than dispel it.

Looking down, the Israeli pilots could tell their troops from the Egyptians' when they saw ice-cream trucks, hot-dog vans, and laundry wagons navigating the desert.

Not only is this not love; I think it is the most diabolical unfairness that was ever taught or devised.

You couldn't love someone the way he had loved her and then be turned off them in five minutes by nothing more than lies and daydreams. Could you? Could you?

In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation marks, it seems that the only object that can claim total honesty is fiction itself.

No forgiveness for lies.

The truth hurts for a little while. A lie hurts forever.

How can you misbehave so badly and expect me to believe that you believe in God? It's a dead giveaway that you are a liar.

Most people will show you courtesy, but in a fraudulent, untruthful, way.

Once you realize how flawed, corrupt, worthless, and evil people are, their lies won't bother you as much anymore.

The world is overwhelmed by evil people, evil forces, and evil things.

Never trust sheep.

I love you, Theresa," he whispers gently. "I love you, too," she replies. "But I'm afraid the love I have for you is only an illusion, Graham, nothing more than a digital shadow of what the real Theresa used to feel." Suddenly